[ExI] quantum brains
scerir
scerir at libero.it
Tue Jan 19 22:33:59 UTC 2010
Whoa. I think you are crossing threads here, Stathis. I am not making any
assertions about the computability or incomputability of brain function. I
think that is a separate, although potentially related, issue from whether the
brain uses quantum mechanics to function. I am merely addressing what I
percieve as a classical bias to biology and brain
function. For the most part QM *is* computable otherwise it would be
worthless to physics.
-Stuart LaForge
If quantum information is indeed carried by quantum systems, the wavefunction
might be the image of this information. While the quantum information cannot be
written
on paper, the wavefunction (in general) can be. Thus, it is possible to
imagine that quantum information does exist, it is not the wavefunction, but it
is only represented by it. This distinction seems important, speaking of the
largely hypothetical quantum brain. Notice the double dichotomy: brain / mind,
quantum wavefuntion / quantum information.
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